Improvement in hitching and sign posts



CHARLES F. BARNARD.

Illuminating Hitching and Sign Posts.

No. 124,532, PatentedMarch12,1872.

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CHARLES F. BARNARD, OF VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN HITCHING AND SIGN POSTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 124,532, dated March 12, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES F. BARNARD, of Victoria, Vancouver Island, British Golumbia, have invented certain new and useful In provements in Illuminated Hitchin g' and Sign Posts; and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing making a part of this specification, in Which- Figure l is a perspective view of my device 5 Fig. 2, a vertical cross-section on the line 00 w of Fig. 1; and Fig. 3, a vertical cross-section 0n the line y y of Fig. 1.

Like letters of like kinds denote similar parts in each figure. l

The nature of my invention relates to illuminated hollow posts, used for hitching and for the display of appropriate signs; and consists in the construction of the post, and in the combination therewith of the devices for hitching, for lighting for the display of signs, and for the reception of letters and newspapers.

In the drawing, A represents the post, preferably rectangular, and taperingfrom bottom to top, so that it may serve for its secure retention in the ground, and for the convenient arrangement of its door and plates of glass; and B, the cap which surmounts it. Upon one side of the post is a door, 0, provided with a suitable lock. Hitchin g-chains D, having their outer ends provided with snap-hoops and their inner ends with weights, pass through pulleys a in the wall of the post near the top thereof, and are of a length sufficient, when not in use, to be drawn by the weight wholly within the post, leaving only the snap-hooks on the outside. On the other sides of the post, and in its. walls, are arranged the plates of glass D, upon one or more of which signs may be painted or gilded, or one or more of them may be stained of some bright color. Upon the inside of the door is placed a box, E, for the reception of letters, messages, or newspapers, with an opening in the door to correspond, which may be covered with a lid, b,- and also a box, F, for the reception of candles and matches. On the outside of the door is a frame, 0, in which may be displayed any sign or professional card. In the center of the inside is a socket, G, for the reception of a candle, or, if gas is used, for the reception of the pipe. Suitable perforations d are made in the walls of the post for the admission of air, and a metallic shield, e, is placed on the under side of the cap to protect it from the flame.

It is designed to place this post at the curb of streets, with the door toward thesidewalk, and to illuminate it at night, as above mentioned. This lighting up of the interior will display the signs, and will be very convenient for physicians, dentists, druggists, and others who do business after dark. The light also will display the snap-hooks of the chains, so that horses may be readily hitched and unhitched.

I do not wish to confine myself to any special material or form of construction in my hitching-post, or to confine my invention to posts alone, as the same construction and method of operation may be adopted with the columns of piazzas of hotels and other public buildings.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new therein is-- The hollow post A, provided with the door (3, the hitching chains D, the glass plates D, the letter-box E, and the gas-pipe or candleholder G, all constructed and arranged substantially as described and shown, for the purposes set forth.

In testimony that I claimthe foregoin g-I have hereunto set my hand.

CHAS. F. BARNARD, M. D.

Witnesses:

T. N. I. SIBBEN, M. W. WAITT. 

